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Friday, June 28, 2013

More Unusual Sports Quotes

I quit school in the sixth
grade because of pneumonia.

Not because I had it, but
because I couldn’t spell it.

-Rocky
Graziano

A while ago, I
posted some atypical quotes from the world of sports (link to post: http://goo.gl/phzMF) and got a lot of positive feedback ...
so here’s another round.

But before we
get to the unusual ones, here’s a link a great motivational piece: Vince
Lombardi’s most famous speech: What It
Takes To Be Number One (free download: http://goo.gl/JB5gm).

OK, here’s a
brief break from your busy day ... hopefully, after having a quick chuckle you
will be refreshed and ready to back to productive business action.

I thought lacrosse was what
you find in la church. -Robin Williams

If I were playing third base
and my mother were rounding third with the run that was going to beat us, I'd
trip her. Oh, I'd pick her up and brush her off and say, "Sorry Mom", but nobody
beats me.
-Leo Durocher

I don't think the discus will
ever attract any interest until they let us start throwing them at one another. -Al Oerter

Hockey is a sport for white
men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed
like pimps. -
Tiger Woods

Winning is overrated. The
only time it is really important is in surgery and war. -Al McGuire

The trouble with referees is
that they just don't care which side wins. -Tom Canterbury

The reason the pro tells you
to keep your head down is so you can't see him laughing. -Phyllis Diller

These are my new shoes.
They're good shoes. They won't make you rich like me, they won't make you
rebound like me, they definitely won't make you handsome like me. They'll only
make you have shoes like me. That's it. -From a Charles Barkley commercial for
basketball shoes, 1993

Crystallizing my feelings
about the game, I find that squash is less frustrating than golf, less fickle
than tennis. It is easier than badminton, cheaper than polo. It is better
exercise than bowls, quicker than cricket, less boring than jogging, drier than
swimming, safer than hang gliding. -John Hopkins, “Squash: A Joyful Game”

I was called
"Rembrandt" Hope in my boxing days, because I spent so much time on
the canvas.
-Bob Hope

Baseball and football are
very different games. In a way, both of them are easy. Football is easy if
you're crazy as hell. Baseball is easy if you've got patience. They'd both be
easier for me if I were a little more crazy - and a little more patient. -Bo Jackson

A tough day at the office is
even tougher when your office contains spectator seating. -Nik Posa

Baseball statistics are like
a girl in a bikini. They show a lot, but not everything. -Toby Harrah

I don't know. I never smoked AstroTurf. -Tug McGraw, when asked if
he preferred grass or AstroTurf

To close this post, here’s a thought from Red Shannon on one
reason we are so interested in athletic endeavor:

Sport lets us believe in the impossible. "Do
you believe in miracles? Yes!" It doesn't happen often enough but every
now and then, just about the time we are ready to succumb to the predictable,
to the inevitable...Whump! Young David rises up to smite the giant- whether
that behemoth is the perennial powerhouse or the untouchable world record. It's
this aspect of sport that can, at any time, any place, stir the little kid in
us to ask "why not?"